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[rusty_halo]

Last night's Sean Bean movie was Patriot Games. I really hated this movie, probably more so than it deserved. Something just totally rubbed me wrong; I think maybe it was that the main family reminded me on the family in Fatal Attraction:

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[trepkos]

That fandom wank link was funny!

[10zlaine]

don't be such a dork about period...you just watched sharpe. it's what they wore and how they spoke.

However, you'll really dig his character. the character was written to have no redemptive qualities. It's the first English novel (1747), and was written in epistolary form (1500 pages)...so it's quite a task putting it on television. Generally, though, readers wanted Lovelace to be redeemable and they were rooting for him, and so Richardson added stuff two more times to the book to try and make his character less likeable. Sean Bean is perfect for the part, IMO.

Someday I wanna look at that concept and put it against modern characters who've been perceived as unredeemable...but I don't think I have the brainpower for that.

[rusty_halo]

Yeah, but Sharpe has guns and explosions and fighting and blood and shirtless Sean Bean and lots of hot male bonding. :P

I'm sick of reading texts against authorial intentions. It gets frustrating: watching BtVS for Spike, VM for Logan, etc etc. I'm so over the whole "question of redemption" thing, and am pretty sure that I do not believe in either the concept of redemption or the idea that anyone needs it.

I'm pretty sure that this movie is going to make me ill... but that it may be worth it for Sean Bean.

I think part of why I love Sharpe is the lack of moral judgment ... Sharpe does rotten things all the time, but the audience is never encouraged to judge him for it. And Sharpe's lack of religion is quite delightful in a lead character. :)

[10zlaine]

You won't like Clarissa for the reason that Richardson was sending out messages, which is what they did in those days with the moralizing and stuff. Keep that in mind

[buffyx]

I've come to embrace and love Fandom_Wank for its snark. Usually the "targets" are either fans who are so full of themselves that you don't mind seeing them taken down a notch or two, or else crazies who are just really far gone. When I'm in a bad mood, sometimes I will search back through old, hilarious wanks and make myself feel better.

My mom and I both agreed that Colbert has been on this week, even more so than usual. He seemed almost giddy. The Colbert Report has edged out over The Daily Show for me, just because I find it to be more consistently funny, though of course I still adore Jon Stewart.

Veronica Mars: You didn't miss much. I have such a love/hate affair with that show.

[rusty_halo]

The show itself makes me feel condescended to. I have nothing against the fandom.

I just get the sense that the show is a little too morally preachy and a little too ... directed toward a younger demographic. I like the film noir stuff: the corruption of the rich and powerful, the town's glitzy surface hiding its dark underbelly ... pretty much everything with the Echolls family ... I do NOT like the kiddie stuff, the preachy hints that Logan isn't good enough for Veronica, the simplistic sexual politics, the entire character of Wallace... the entire character of Piz... and it seems that the show is definitely moving more in the kiddie direction.

I suppose those horribly vacuous girly girls blabbering during the commercials last time didn't help either. :P

[jerrymcl89]

If you intend to keep watching VM, I guess you may as well download the episode. But I suspect the it will push your buttons in a not-so-good way. So far, Rob Thomas's take on the politics of a college campus is ham-handed enough to make me wonder if he's ever actually been to college.